2 volumes

"The lectures on which this book is based were delivered as part of a course on the Technique of printing in the Graduate school of business administration of Harvard university, during the years 1911-1916"--Preface

"Chronological list of specimens": vol. II, p. [297]-298

"First edition: first printing, August, 1922; second printing, January, 1923; third printing, March, 1937. Second edition, printed, September, 1937."

Includes bibliographical references and index

"Chronological list of specimens": vol. II, p. [297]-298

V. 1. The invention of printing : the cutting and casting of types in relation to their design -- A font of type and its case : the typographical point : point-set and lining types -- The Latin alphabet and its development up to the invention of printing -- Types of the fifteenth century in Germany -- Types of the fifteenth century in Italy -- Types of the fifteenth century in France -- Types of the fifteenth century in the Netherlands : Holland and Belgium -- Types of the fifteenth century in Spain -- Types of the fifteenth century in England -- The Aldine italic -- A word on type specimens -- German types, 1500-1800 -- Italian types, 1500-1800 -- French types, 1500-1800 -- V. 2. Types of the Netherlands, 1500-1800 -- Spanish types, 1500-1800 -- English types, 1500-1800 -- Types used in the American colonies, and some early American specimens -- Nineteenth century "classical" types, Bodoni and the Didots -- English types, 1800-1844 -- Revival of Caslon and Fell types -- English and American revival of early type-forms and its effect on continental types -- The choice of types for a composing-room -- Industrial conditions of the past and their relation to the printer's problem to-day

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